may shrink in horror from the union, will find no way of escape. "He
that is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is holy, let him be
holy still."[231] "Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also
reap,"[232] and the harvest will abide with him for ever.


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ARTICLE 12

_And the Life Everlasting_


The great truth affirmed in the concluding article of the Creed is the
Life Everlasting: "The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is
eternal life."[233] This life will be the portion of all who are
acquitted in the day of judgment, and they will then enter upon new
experiences. Death and hell shall be cast into the lake of fire, and the
redeemed, no longer subject to imperfection, decay, or death, shall be
raised to the right hand of the Father, where there is fulness of joy;
to partake of those pleasures for evermore which have been purchased for
them by the blood of the Lamb.

It is interesting to note the gradual development of this doctrine,
which was first fully expressed by Him who brought life and immortality
to light. We have the statement of the writer to the Hebrews that the
faith of Old Testament saints had in view the continuance of life after